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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1949
Page
5
Ruth Millett notes a housewife's urge in spring to brighten drab rooms, drawing focus to a restraining order dispute over painting. A judge pauses to inspect, but the piece emphasizes the seasonal ritual, costs, and the wife’s energy to refresh home life without wrecking the budget.
Thursday activities include Out-Our-Way Garden Club with Mrs J R Meredith on Thomasville road and Mid-Week Study Club at the YWCA with Mrs Chaffin Sheffield as hostess. Evening events feature Mrs Robert Hutchens and Miss Nancy Wollen entertaining for Miss Marguerite Murray at the Hutchens home and a Friendship Club luncheon hosted by Mrs Edgar George at 113 Hillcrest Drive. Friday offers Priscilla Club at 912 Fairway Drive and Miss Marguerite Murray honored by Mrs L F Ferree and Mrs Ray Fisher at Forrest Hill Drive plus Mary Edith Ferree hosted by Mrs C A Ferree at 620 Howell Street.
Edith Mitchem, 30, textile worker, was indicted on murder charges in the death of her six year old daughter Rhonda Pearl Mitchem. A coroner's jury ruled the child died at unknown hands last June 16 after a note claimed she killed the child to prevent her from living like others. Police say handwriting experts tied the note to Mrs. Mitchem. The father Jimmy Mitchem and his brother say they found the child shot eight times and Edith shot six times. Edith remained in hospital and could not testify.
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